[Mitworld] Bill Gates on Giving Back, Krystyn Van Vliet on Materials Science and Vehicle Efficiencies

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 9, Number 41 |  June 9, 2010

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Giving Back: Finding the Best Way to Make a Difference
April 21, 2010

Bill Gates details major initiatives of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation--eliminating childhood 
deaths, improving the nation’s education system, tackling sustainable energy or sanitation systems 
worldwide, and calls upon the nation's best minds to work on solving these critical global problems.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/778

Speaker:
William H. Gates III
Trustee and Co-Chair, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Chairman, Microsoft Corporation


Event Host:
The Office of the President of MIT

"Are the brightest minds working on the most important problems? To the degree they are not, how do we increase that?"
-Bill Gates

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Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Why Chemomechanical Design of Materials is Critical to Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure
March 30, 2010

Krystyn Van Vliet discusses how the materials we build our bridges from, the infrastructure of the 
road, and of course, the tires we drive on affect energy use. They are all parts of the sustainable 
equation. For the U.S. to achieve the reductions in C02 consistent with the 2050 Kyoto protocols, 
a substantial portion of that must be made by reducing the CO2 from the construction of highways and bridges. 

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/777

Speaker:
Krystyn J. Van Vliet PhD '02
Thomas Lord Associate Professor of Materials Science
and Engineering, MIT



Event Host:
Transportation at MIT

"Since the materials are used in such large volumes why has there been relatively so little 
innovation in them? The main reason is that the materials are inexpensive. Because of their 
low cost, cost is not a strong driving factor."
-Krystyn Van Vliet

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In The Pipeline:

Environmental Impacts of Aviation

Presented By:
Transportation at MIT

Speaker:
Ian Waitz
Jerome C. Hunsaker Professor and Department Head
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

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